Saturday – Hackney Citizen

The Saturday interview: Mossbourne academy’s Sir Michael Wilshaw

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 17 September 2011 at 13:06

Sir Michael Wilshaw is the super-strict head at Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and is rumoured to become the new head of Ofsted. Can he repeat Mossbourne’s success nationwide?

UK riots: don’t shut these kids out now

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 13 August 2011 at 09:08

Put the shutters up on the shops, but not in our minds. A punitive and condemning reaction simply mirrors the alienation so many already experience

Let the games begin

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 23 July 2011 at 12:06

It’s a year to the start of the 2012 Olympics. Iain Sinclair, writer and arch critic of the project, takes on Labour’s Tessa Jowell who played a key role in the London bid

It’s time to get angry

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 15 January 2011 at 11:42

All this polite and smiley feminism is getting us nowhere

Seconds out, round one

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 15 January 2011 at 11:26

As billions are expected to be paid out to bankers, Labour MP Diane Abbott argues that the bonus culture is toxic, while libertarian Mark Littlewood disagrees